I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth Lyrics

Some people say "Arise! Arise! Arise! Live friend live!" I say: "Die." I say: "Shade yourself." I say: "Shine what precious light you have into caves And when it dies out stay...Read Full Lyrics

I'll go gather wood What I do I'll do good And when I have it in my fingers I hope I know It was not the hunting that led me there It was the ice in my hair When the wind f...Read Full Lyrics

[Julie Doiron] What would be the use in becoming A symbol of walking desolation? Awash in multiple griefs Elaborating on anguish [Phil Elverum and Julie Doiron] What gl...Read Full Lyrics

Broken hearted and sad, I walk upright A dumb ape in a world of dumb apes A log in the waves Knowing sorrow's always beside me, I walk upright "O crown of light!" I sometimes...Read Full Lyrics

Moon, I already know I'm small on the ground I roll around and feel menacing mountains And all depths of sorrow dwarf me All towering terrors of mine to cower below I know I k...Read Full Lyrics

And when I talked to my friends And found out that you're having fun That you're swallowing life That you're in the sun That you're fucking around You're growing a new one I bellow...Read Full Lyrics

Flame upon Flame upon Flame Reaching out to wrap around My reaching arm That's how life got to be among my friends I wanted her so bad I waited around in a burning down hous...Read Full Lyrics

I am a container of stories about you And I bring you up repeatedly, uninvited to Do the people around me want to keep hearing about my dead wife? Or does the room go silent w...Read Full Lyrics

Vastness and watching At the crest of night Seeing in Blue hole grows Yawning Swept above The hills roll Over the water I call low Wild Hunt To the ocean...Read Full Lyrics

I remember looking around hte hospital waiting room Full of people all absorbed in their own personal catastrophes All reading books like "Being Mortal," all with a look in their...Read Full Lyrics